UPPER SILESIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 7 May 1921, Page 5

UPPER SILESIA

POLES IMPROVE POSBSION

ADVANCING ON ODER

J 3Erv.CABLE-rKB.ESS ASSOCI&ffiION-wCOPYBIGHI | L^Nncm, -May -6. Telegrams to the Dafty Express .'fKem fljpper JSilesia indicate .that .the Polish' insurrection is hourly gaining .ground. Inter-Allied and German ■ plebiscite ifcroops are being oyerwiielmsd by uiumibehs, and are retiring to .avoid more.Polish bands isave reached tftJder, anjd the^ Polish ring is lightening J >around the principal to,w.na. Evsr.y- J ■.iwhere the Poles - are i •carts, horses.and.food. ' 'CHie.interriAJlied mission is now faced •by, the problem of. accepting tthe IFdliiii invasion or.immediately obtaining .sufficient reinforcements to gain the upper ihand. According to the latest reports IQfyCKiO Upper Silesian Poles have joined the insurgents, whit- ;ar* advancing «xni.Oder. The Reichstag Commiibiee on Foreign JLffiairs has; asked the iGoveraumenit to send iregular t.troops to Silesia, but if ♦this is done it is expected Polish regulars will invade. Upper Silesia. Insleed : it.«libelieT!:€d:P6).aaid;as«mly waiting *o hear that German troops are moving pa. order :to take-the-step. , A Warsaw message reports thatt; he insurgents-are well and 'hokl possession of "the whole of the; caxnartry •wi€hm Korfantz . line. They 'have destroyed the railway leading to ißreslau, and the 'bridges over the ,*Mer.. 'There is.every indication that the IK-or-line will ;be defended against in-' vaders. The Polish Government .disapprove -of the outbreak arid-intend* to ask the Allied Tfowers to make an immediate* :settlement of the Upper Silesia question a* the only means of fa-eventing further flisorder.